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I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

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